Emmanuel Burden Merchant, of Thames St., in the City of London, Exporter of Hardware. A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days and Death by Hilaire Belloc, with thirty-four illustrations by G.K. Chesterton

Annotations: front end papers [Illustrated bookplate: Illustration of a chair in front of an open window. Books on shelves surround the window and a sleeping dog lies on the floor in the foreground] Text reads:
Ex Libris, Dorothy E. Collins ‘The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned, is that people to whom they are lent, find it so much easier to retain the books than their contents’. [Black ink] Top Meadow Library Beaconsfield